Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows - gHacks Tech News
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The new Outlook email application for Windows displays ads disguised as regular emails to users. The classic Mail app did not.
  • w2tpmf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    176·
    10 months ago

    No one is paying for it. It’s a free app.

    This isn’t Outlook from the paid Office suit. This is the shitty free “Mail” app that has been renamed to also be called Outlook because Microsoft sucks at naming things.

    • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Outlook itself is aka Hotmail, Windows Live Mail, MSN mail, and so on and so forth.

      • w2tpmf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        No that’s still not the Outlook this is talking about.

        They use the name Outlook for THREE things now…

        Outlook - the application from the Office suit

        Outlook - the email service

        Outlook - the shitty free email client